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According to Steam's owner Valve Valve says that in 2023 Bucher launched a mass‑arbitration drive through his new practice, The Bucher Law Firm. As part of this push, he advised Steam users that pursuing arbitration alleging the platform monopolised the gaming market to keep prices artificially high was a better route than a class action. Valve also contends Bucher embarked on the campaign after being dismissed from Zaiger LLC and accused of taking its client list, again urging users to choose arbitration over a class action. His firm then issued a settlement demand that Valve characterises as extreme and beyond any plausible recovery, and submitted thousands of arbitration filings to the American Arbitration Association. In May, Bucher Law sought rulings in four of its cases to have the arbitration clause in the company’s former subscriber agreement declared unenforceable. Those applications were granted in July, after which Steam dropped its arbitration clause, prompting users to accept a new subscriber agreement last month...

On 2 August 2024, Ireland’s Government released the Defamation (Amendment) Bill (the ‘Bill’). It stems from recommendations set out in the 2022 Report of the Review of the Defamation Act 2009 and the 2023 Draft General Scheme of the Defamation (Amendment) Bill (the ‘General Scheme’). Although the Bill does not carry across every reform proposed in the General Scheme—for instance measures on the statute of limitations and jurisdictional forum shopping—it is anticipated that a number of meaningful updates will be made to the current defamation regime. The most notable of these are summarised below. Removal of Juries in High Court Defamation Actions The Bill would abolish juries in High Court defamation proceedings. The objective is to: minimise the risk of excessive damages being awarded to plaintiffs reduce delays and legal costs in proceedings shorten the duration of court hearings...

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Practice Note This Practice Note consists of two strands created to help dispute resolution practitioners remain up to date with developments in case law that affect their field, or which influence civil litigation procedure more generally: selected forthcoming appeals to the Supreme Court are highlighted below; see Key forthcoming appeals to the Supreme Court—2022 summaries of significant appeal decisions in England and Wales (ie rulings of the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court and, where appropriate, certain judgments of the Competition Appeal Tribunal, Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Court of Justice of the European Union), and ECtHR, which we have covered; see: Key forthcoming appeal cases—2022 You can navigate this content using the table of contents in the left-hand margin. Alternatively, search this tracker using [CTRL]+[F]. This material is not intended to be a comprehensive register of every appeal or major decision relevant to dispute resolution practitioners. Key forthcoming appeals to the Supreme Court—2022 Tort and negligence ...

Practice Note This Practice Note sets out the method to be adopted in practice when deciding whether the EU courts have jurisdiction to adjudicate an IP dispute, with principal reference to the scheme contained in Regulation (EU) 1215/2012 (Brussels I (recast)). It carefully examines the overall position across disputes about IP rights and then describes specific, practical questions for patents, trade marks, copyright and design rights, including the dedicated regimes for EU trade marks (EUTMs) in Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 and for EU designs in Regulation (EC) 6/2002 (as amended by Regulation (EU) 2024/2822). IP rights are secured on a national or regional territorial basis; however, the character of the subject matter (eg inventions, written works, etc) enables virtually immediate cross-border transmission, particularly in today’s modern digital age. Working out whether a given court has jurisdiction is, accordingly, a potentially intricate and often fact-sensitive issue. This Practice Note also outlines the strategic considerations that parties ought to evaluate when contemplating commencing proceedings. For more information on court jurisdiction and IP...

Gategroup Guarantee Limited sought approval for a Part 26A restructuring plan (RP), with the convening hearing in February 2021 and the sanction hearing in March 2021. The headline points are outlined below; unless stated otherwise, capitalised expressions have the meanings given in the convening and sanction judgments. This Deal Debrief forms part of our Restructuring plans collection. For an in‑depth review of key metrics from RPs submitted in 2023, together with insights from leading figures in the restructuring community, see Practice Note: Market Insights Trend Report—trends in Part 26A restructuring plans in 2023 [Archived]. Name of plan company gategroup Guarantee Limited (the Company) Industry sector Food catering Place of debtor’s incorporation and jurisdictional factors The Company is incorporated in England and Wales. Although the Issuer was incorporated in Luxembourg, its centre of main interests (COMI) had been moved to England...